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1984 Televisions Vs Telescreens - 1,437 words
1984 Televisions Vs Telescreens 1984 Televisions
Vs Telescreens TV rots the senses in the head! It
kills the imagination dead! It clogs and clutters
up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind.
He can no longer understand a fantasy, A
fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze! An excerpt
from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, By Roald
Dahl, 1964 When George Orwells epic novel 1984 was
published in 1949 it opened the publics
imagination to a future world where privacy and
freedom had no meaning. The year 1984 has come and
gone and we generally believe ourselves to still
live in "The Land of the Free;" however, as we now
move into the 21st Cent ...
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A Magazine Is Not A Mirror Have You Ever Seen Anyone In A Magazine That Looked Even Vaguely Like You Looking Back Most Magazi - 691 words
A magazine is not a mirror. Have you ever seen
anyone in a magazine that looked even vaguely like
you looking back? Most magazines are made to sell
a fantasy of what we're supposed to be. They
reflect what society deems to be a standard,
however unattainable that standard is. That
doesn't mean you should cancel your subscription.
Women need to remember that it's just ink on the
paper. Whatever standards you set for yourself:
how much you weigh, how hard you work out, or how
many times you make it to the gym should be your
standards, not someone else's. Magazines portray
unrealistic images and women need to learn to
accept themselves. Women are now risking their
health for the sake of beauty. ...
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Ad And Ego - 422 words
Ad And Ego The Ad and the Ego Students will never
look at an ad the same way again after screening
The Ad and the Ego, the first comprehensive
examination of advertising and our culture of
consumption. The film artfully intercuts clips
from hundreds of familiar television ads with
insights from Stuart Ewen, Jean Kilbourne, Richard
Pollay, Sut Jhally, Bernard McGrane and other
noted critics, performing a cultural
psychoanalysis of late 20th century America and
its principal inhabitants, Consumer Man and Woman.
The Ad and the Ego depicts how the market economy
has metastasized until today commercialism invades
the most intimate aspects of our lives. The
average American is exposed to 1500 ads ...
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Adp Security Evaluation - 1,938 words
Adp Security Evaluation Valuation of a Security
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. ADP April 7, 1999
Spring Hill College Management of Financial
Resources Dr. Ralph Sandler ADP Automatic Data
Processing, Inc. (NYSE:AUD) ADP is one of the
largest independent computing services firms in
the world with more than $4.5 billion in annual
revenues and more than 425,000 clients. Founded in
1949, ADP provides computerized transaction
processing, data communications, software, and
information services to companies in virtually
every industry. ADP Employer Services is the
worlds largest provider of payroll services and
human resource administration systems. It offers a
comprehensive range of benefits, pa ...
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Advertising, The Good With The Bad - 1,119 words
Advertising, The Good With The Bad Mass
Communication Process Thesis Paper Advertising
(Chapter 11) Advertising is a necessary market
force that is responsible for the success of most,
and involved in all, forms of Multimedia. It is
also responsible for some of our most powerful and
long-living icons that dominate the American
landscape. Advertising, like it or not, is
everywhere. It is on buses, billboards and hot-air
balloons. It invades our living rooms, our
classrooms and almost every aspect of human life.
The average American is exposed to 115
advertisements during their morning commute. With
this much exposure to the consumer market, one
wonders weather or not this is good or bad for t ...
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Anorexia - 1,543 words
Anorexia It would seem today that eating disorders
are on the rise. While this may be true, the
numbers may appear to grow only because more cases
are being brought out into the open. One
interpretation of an eating disorder is termed as
a relationship between the person and food that
appears abnormal. Anorexia Nervosa is one of the
most prevalent eating disorder diseases. The word
Anorexia itself means, "lack of appetite," and as
for the definition of Anorexia, Anorexia is an all
encompassing pursuit of thinness, occurring most
often in adolescents and young adult women. This
is accomplished by avoidance of eating by any
means possible. The person affected by Anorexia
has an absolutely terr ...
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Applied Nostalgia - 2,248 words
Applied Nostalgia Applied Nostalgia--A Parental
Look Back Without past memories, Americans lack a
standard to base present conditions upon. These
memories lie carefully shuffled and categorized in
the giant shifter called the brain to crudely
approximate the present standard of life. They
hope to draw gratification and fulfillment in the
progression of the quality of their and especially
their children's lives. This innate desire to
compare the past to the present drives personal
and political decisions, especially conservatives
who advocate a change to the policies and values
of the past. Today, the faded memories of an
emerging group of parents of their post-World War
II upbringing, like c ...
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Autism - 875 words
Autism Autism (pp. 565-570) Autism is a pervasive
developmental disorder (PDD) that is very complex
and involves many different and separate physical
and mental disorders. Researchers have long been
puzzled by autism, or childhood autism as it is
often referred to. This severely disabling
disorder affects approximately 80,000 children in
the United States and is usually diagnosed by
therapists and psychologists before the onset of
two and a half years of age. Doctors note many of
the complex disorders and symptoms associated with
autism during the months of infancy. Babies who
would normally look toward recognizable voices and
reach out to people are often times devoid of
these social growth ...
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Balanced Budget - 1,815 words
Balanced Budget Balanced Budget Thomas Jefferson
stated, I place economy among the first and most
important virtues, and public debt as the greatest
of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must
not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt
(Grinsburg 1). This quote illustrates the
importance of maintaining a balanced budget;
therefore, it is necessary to stand firmly
resolved that the government should balance its
budget. Three main arguments uphold this premise.
They are as follows: 1. It is feasible for the
government to balance the budget, 2. A budget
deficit harms the United States through creating a
trade deficit and increasing the national debt, 3.
A balanced budget would benefit ...
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Birth Of A Nation: The Suppression Of A People - 1,772 words
Birth of a Nation: The Suppression of a People
Birth of a Nation: The Suppression of a People
America is believed to be founded as the first
state founded on the notion that democracy is for
all people, however this is far from the truth.
Not only did it take almost two hundred years till
the American government grants full opportunities
to African American, they even accepted the
slavery of these peoples for almost half of that
time. A republic government, such as the American
government, is based on the idea that all people
can have an equal represented fairly and have an
equal vote. This is very hard to accomplish when
groups of people living within that republic are
discriminated against ...
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Black Gold Texas Tea - 1,270 words
Black Gold Texas Tea Trevor MacKenzie Black Gold
the Texas Tea In this paper I will touch on topics
of oil prices, the demise and growth of oil
companies large and small and international oil
regulators, natural oil deposits and their
locations and life expectancy, and the future of
the oil industry and all it effects. I have chosen
to write on this topic because of personal
interest in the worlds biggest resource, oil. In
past years I have thought of how the modern world
revolves around certain elements and ideas, one of
these is oil. I wanted to try to get answers to
questions I have had about How long can we keep
extracting oil from the Earth? and How will people
overcome a worldwide comp ...
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Black Like Me Farewell To Manzanar - 949 words
Black Like Me & Farewell To Manzanar Black Like Me
& Farewell To Manzanar Through all the trials that
people have been put through, throughout the
years, somehow people seem to forgive and forget.
How can anyone be so willing to let things go when
they have done nothing wrong to deserve it. The
lives of two people who so willingly forgave those
who had done them wrong showed many virtues of
perseverance, tolerance, and respect. Jeanne W.
Houston in her book, Farewell to Manzanar and John
Griffin in his book, Black Like Me, both
demonstrate qualities that would, if revealed
among all people benefit the world and all of
mankind. Through thick and thin both Jeanne and
John perservere. No matter ...
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Boyz N The Hood - 976 words
Boyz N The Hood MOVING BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: HOW
THE USE OF MUSIC DEVELOPS JOHN SINGLETON'S BOYZ N
THE HOOD John Singleton's movie Boyz N The Hood is
the story of three young men who are forced to
deal with the reality of life in South Central,
Los Angeles. Singleton uses this setting to
illustrate the obstacles facing these young black
men who unavoidably encounter violence all around
them. Singleton refrains from portraying his
characters as inner-city misfits but instead he
characterizes them as average American teenagers
who are caught in a situation in which they have
no control. Doughboy is an average American
teenager but his behavior is not that of an
average teenager. It is a resul ...
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Brainwashing Americas Youth - 1,223 words
Brainwashing America's Youth Brainwashing
America's Youth Over many years of research,
studies have found that the television violence
has increased. Certain "role model" type
characters initiate most of these violent
behaviors. These are usually very aggressive
incidents and they very often include humor. "The
average American preschooler who watches mostly
cartoons is exposed to over 500 high-risk
portrayals of violence each year" (DeGaetano).
Youth violence has been growing throughout the
years. Some effects noticeable in children are
mean behavior towards others, aggressive actions
while playing with classmates and toys, and also
fear. Television has an important influence in the
lives o ...
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Campaign Finance - 1,231 words
Campaign Finance Campaign finance reform has
already become an issue for debate in this
election year's primaries. This matter does not
hold a large amount of interest for the average
American, it is not an issue that is going to sway
a large amount of voters. The book examines all
facets of campaign finance including sources of
contributions and finance reform. The book then
takes a close, hard look at the 1980 presidential
election and the 1982 congressional races. The
author approaches the subject matter in a very
thorough and systematic method. He makes very
insightful comments on the state of campaign
finance in the early 1980's which are still
relevant in this election year because thi ...
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Canterbury Tales - 2,175 words
Canterbury Tales Throughout history all different
parts of the world have been devastated by natural
disasters. Whenever something created by nature
destroys a certain area of the world, people tend
to group together and overcome such a tragedy. Our
tale will begin in one of the busiest and diverse
places in the world, New York City. The month was
September and the day started off a bit chilly for
an early fall day and the wind was blowing hard.
Warnings had been posted for possible hurricane
conditions, and the city had become a frenzy of
activity. Some were busy preparing for a possible
devastating hurricane and gathering supplies while
others were going about their daily routine
unaffecte ...
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Cheever And Joyce - 1,177 words
Cheever And Joyce Joyce and John Cheever were two
influential writers of the late 1800's and early
1900's. James Joyce was an Irish author that wrote
various short stories, novels, and poems. In
Dubliners, he is noted for his epiphanies and
objective correlatives. John Cheever, is an
American short-story writer and novelist whose
work is known for his portrayals of the average
middle-class American. His works include ironic
comedies and the displaying of his imagination.
Both writers are duly noted for their short
stories. Their unique styles of writings are
respectably different to a point. They are similar
in the way they display their descriptions, and
differ in the way they present the o ...
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Clinton Impeachment - 744 words
Clinton Impeachment As the impeachment trial draws
to an end there is much controversy about weather
or not President Clinton should be impeached. Many
say yes and many say no. The President of the
United States should be one of the most
influential men in our society, considering the
fact that he represents this country before the
world leaders. Wouldn't you like to know that your
representative was a law abiding citizen of the
United States? So if he is a law abiding citizen
shouldn't the President of the United States be
held to the same laws and punishment as your
average Joe? Or maybe on a stricter basis
considering that, again I state, he is this
countries representative that negotiate ...
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Cottons Impact On The United States Before The Civil War - 1,674 words
Cottons Impact on the United States Before the
Civil War With the end of the War of 1812, few
people in the United States envisioned a civil war
in the future. With a developing Western section
of the country, the future looked bright for a
stable growing economy based on extraction of
resources (agriculture, timber, and various
resources in the ground). With the shipping
resources of New England and financial centers in
the North, agriculture and extraction of resources
seemed to be the foundation to base the country's
economy on. Within a short period of time,
however, the North was beginning to industrialize
while the Southern states stayed agrarian. A
reason why the South did not industr ...
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